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We're having a party this weekend on Made in Manitoba, with yet another debut. This time around its the six piece Winnipeg based country music group The Sean Taylor Band. Featuring Greg Dunstan on bass, James Klassen on keys, Sean Taylor Johnston on acoustic guitar and vocals, Juno award winner Jeff Kula on drums, Sean Borton on guitar, and Blaine Badiuk on fiddle and mandolin.

Evacuees from northern Manitoba continued to pour into Winnipeg Friday as a renewed round of wildfires threatened communities and shrouded much of the province in smoke.

"It's been rough," Misty Harper said, as she and her partner walked outside of a large indoor soccer complex set up to house evacuees, along with her one-year-old daughter in a stroller. 

Some people sat at picnic tables under small canopies or on grass in an adjacent field. Buses filled with more evacuees arrived a few times each hour.

As the Carman Country Fair gets into full swing this weekend, a familiar sight will once again take to the streets during Saturday’s parade (July 12). Members of the Carman Dufferin Fire Department will be walking with boots in hand, ready to collect donations from the crowd.

Fire Chief Chris Lemky shared his excitement about the fair and the department’s annual boot drive, a longstanding tradition that raises funds to support local firefighting efforts.

Canada’s labour market topped expectations in June amid a surprise surge in hiring.

Statistics Canada said Friday that the unemployment rate dropped a tenth of a percentage point to 6.9 per cent in June as the economy added some 83,000 jobs.

The vast majority of those jobs were part-time, the agency said, with 47,000 positions added in the private sector.

A Reuters poll of economists heading into Friday’s release had expected the jobless rate would rise to 7.1 per cent in June as employment levels held flat.

We're waking Friday up to a much cooler and comfortable start to the day, but also a very smoky one. Air Quality Warnings are in effect for essentially all of Southern Manitoba.

"Wildfire smoke has returned to Southern Manitoba behind a cold front that swept through yesterday," explained CMOS Accredited Weathercaster Chris Sumner. "Northwesterly surface winds, coupled with northwesterly winds aloft, have pushed that smoke southward from forest fires in Northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan."

We are heading into another weekend, and that is enough reason to celebrate! It's time to WIN with the Morden Home Hardware Rockin' Summer WINNING WEEKEND!

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The NDP's leadership race to replace Jagmeet Singh will formally begin in September, with a six-month race to follow according to a rules framework adopted by the party's national council. 

A new leader will be chosen no later than March 29, when the party holds its 2026 convention in Winnipeg.

An entry fee of $100,000 has been set for candidates to show their "organizational and fundraising capacity."

Debates and other leadership events hosted by the party will be streamed online in both official languages, according to the framework. 

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose 35 per cent tariffs on Canadian imports on Aug. 1 in a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney posted on social media Thursday night, evidently setting a new date for bilateral negotiations between the two countries. 

Canada and the United States had committed to working on a new economic and security agreement with a July 21 deadline for a deal. The boosted tariff pressures call into question progress toward the initial time frame.

After a recent find at the Altona Rhineland Waste Disposal site, Altona officials are reminding residents about the importance of proper battery disposal, particularly lithium ion batteries. Public Works Manager Clint Derksen says workers found in a public access bin a weed trimmer with the battery still attached, and were able to remove it before it landed in the dump and was compacted.

Manitoba's Independent Investigation Unit (IIU) is investigating the shooting death of a dog in Swan Lake First Nation.

Manitoba First Nations Police Service (MFNPS) notified the IIU of the incident that occurred around 730am the morning of June 11th. According to the notification, an MFNPS officer attended a residence on Swan Lake First Nation to make an arrest. No arrest was made, and upon leaving the residence, the officer was bitten by a dog. The officer returned to the residence a short time later and fatally shot the dog.